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Malgorzata Szymankiewicz - Reflectiving View

The cycle of works created as a part of the REFLECTING VIEW exhibition is related to public space and addresses the problem of overproduction of images in the contemporary visual culture. Her object of interest is the material proofs of advertising and marketing activities in the form of boards, display cases, lightboxes and banners. Using post-painting imaging methods, Szymankiewicz processed them, creating objects that work mainly through their rhythm, colour and texture. Examining the language of advertising – which imposes a specific way of seeing and manipulating viewer/consumer – the artist was looking for the possibility of creating abstract forms and objects capable of generating new meanings.

REFLECTING VIEW is yet another project in which Szymankiewicz refers to the issue of creators getting entangled in the mechanisms of economy that determine the functioning of the functioning of the art market and advertising market. The artist emphasises the unconscious activities which are reflected not only in the ways the works are presented, but also in the process of building the position of young creators.

Sophia Pompéry: Interview on Collector's Agenda

To play a trick on the Everyday

Thomas Wrede @ Altana Stiftung, Bad Homburg

The Museum Sinclair Haus (Altana cultural foundation) is the first institution to exhibit a comprehensive overview of the artist Thomas Wrede, documenting the relationships and artistic developments of his photographic works ranging from the early 1990s to his current series.

ART ROTTERDAM 2017

Bastian Börsig, Sophia Pompéry, Malgorzata Szymankiewicz

"Reflection": This year’s presentation is grouped around the subject
of reflection with its two meanings: On one hand as an intellectual
process during the creation of art – What is abstraction? What can
painting be today? etc. – and on the other hand as a simple physical
phenomenon that has fascinated mankind all along.

Peter Dreher @ Musée Würth France Erstein

HEAD TO FOOT. Human figures in the Würth Collection

Through 130 paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations from the Würth Collection, the exhibition presents a fascinating vision of the representation of the human figure in art. The extensive selection of works, dating from the late 19th century up to the present day, encompasses major pieces from the Würth Collection as well as recent acquisitions.

Claas Gutsche @ Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie, Quedlinburg

Cut and Close

Malgorzata Szymankiewizc @

#library

1/27/2017 – 2/28/2017

What is the role of the library today? After
all, we no longer believe that all available knowledge of the world can be
gathered in one place. Are books and the vision of the world they convey
becoming obsolete? Why does an electronic library have more borrowers than a traditional one?

The exhibition #library

, featuring seventeen Polish and international artists,
asks questions about the status and the transformations of library from a present-day perspective. The hashtag
attached to the title is both a sign of the times and a play on that signifier
which enables grouping information; in a sense, it is a shelf mark thanks to
which one can easily find their bearings amidst virtual resources.

Erwin Olaf @ Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland

In Search of the Present

In Search of the Present turns the gaze towards current issues that are shaping art and society at large and encourages viewers to participate in the public debate. With its themes, The New Me, Digital Mankind and Nature Kingdom, the exhibition explores the nature of human beings that inhabit a global digital world and their relationship to the environment, themselves and other human beings. The New Me theme described how we build ourselves and our identities in present age by using even quite extreme methods. The human being has become stronger as and operator and factor than ever before. Digital Mankind is a theme that discusses digitalisation and how it changes not only the individual but the entire humankind; we are on the verge of a major shift, which will change the way we think and act. Nature Kingdom talks about how desperately the humankind is striving to contain nature and the animal kingdom, alas with no success.

The first edition of the exhibition series explores the nature of human beings that inhabit a global digital world and their relationship to the environment, themselves and other human beings.